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Psychiatrist "Discovers" the Reality of Evil
Psychiatrist Scott Peck wrote of meeting with a depressed 15-year-old named Bobby, who was increasingly troubled after his 16-year-old brother killed ...
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Customers Risk Their Lives to Eat a 10,000 Calorie Burger
Consider the foolhardy risk takers at the famous Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. This restaurant, known for its "flatliner fries" cooked in pure lard, ...
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Most People Have Thought about Killing Someone
Following the murder of 16 Afghanistan civilians by an American soldier in March 2012, David Brooks writes that terrible crimes such as this should not ...
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Temptation Is Like Getting Hooked by a Fishing Lure
Recently my wife and I went fly-fishing for the first time. Our guides told us that "to catch a fish you have to think like a fish." They said that to ...
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Famous Painting Pictures Human Folly
I imagine you're familiar with the phrase "ship of fools." It was a common medieval motif used in literature and art, especially religious satire. One ...
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Information Alone Doesn't Change Behavior
In his book The Social Animal, David Brooks summarizes vast amounts of social science research by stating that "information programs alone are not ...
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Research Shows We Can't Walk in a Straight Line
For some reason, human beings can't walk in a straight line. There's just something about our inner orientation that causes us to walk in a crooked ...
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Disney Community Rocked by a Murder and a Suicide
It was supposed to be the "perfect" town. After all, it was planned by Disney itself. The town of Celebration, Florida, a 16-acre utopian community ...
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Research Shows We Inflate Our Good Qualities
Here's some good news: if you're like most people, you're way above average—at almost everything. Psychologists call this the state ...
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C. S. Lewis on the God We Think Will Satisfy Us
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" ...
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